Creating motion using key frames and adjusting the motion path is the most important aspect within after
effects.
If you conquer these two concepts you will be halfway in using After Effects the rest actually is very
easy.
Here we are going to create a simple and fun animation just unknown about key frames and motion serious
things would come later.
Please have fun play an experiment you will acquire the skills faster than you could imagine.
So let's start now.
The first thing we want to do is to import some graphics within after effects so we can start creating
some amazing motion if you like or amazing animations to import any file in After Effects.
You just come to the project panel over here and the easiest ways to right click go to import an import.
You can choose file and go to wherever you downloaded the resources from the pleasers lectures please
choose Sky 1.
This is an illustrator file and in input as please change to composition retain layer sizes and keep
the two boxes here unchecked and you click on input now after effects imported the illustrator file
and in this folder here you can see the layers.
We have an airplane and we have a background and also we have a composition that has been created.
This is a composition that has the exercise as an illustrator.
The way I created it now a composition is just a big container where you put all your graphics and the
motion and so on.
This is what will become your video later on to open this composition.
Just double click on it.
Now you can see in the timeline over here you have two layers.
The airplane.
This is the red airplane and you have the background.
And over on the right here you have the timeline itself.
This is the timeline indicator.
You click and move it in time now for the background.
You don't want to click and move it around.
So we are going to lock it.
So come to the lock here.
The second box.
Click on it.
You have locked has come to the airplane and this is what you want to any minute.
Now make it.
You do a couple of loops and exit.
If you two are down on this arrow here.
You will not see that you have transform it turned on again.
These are the transform properties that you can use to create animation.
So you notice you can move the anchor point.
This is the dot in the middle here.
You can move it up and down if you like to.
I will undo control Z.
You have the position you can take it up and down and left and right.
You know that already I am sure you have the scared you can make it bigger or smaller and you have the
rotation pretty easy and you have the opacity.
Make it transparent or totally non-transparent.
We want to focus on animating the position here but I don't want to see all these properties.
I want to see only position to do that.
Our press P has the shortcut for the position property to be now we are all set to start any meeting
the position I will do that in the next video.